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Live storage tanks the key to cash flow during crisis – Written by Colin Bridges

How live storage helped OysterLife pivot in the face of natural disasters. Four years ago, if you had asked Ewan McAsh where the best place to keep his oysters was, he would have said the river. Now, he’ll tell you live tanks are the way to go. These tanks were essential in helping the business survive bush fires, floods and even Covid. “When we first thought about them, we weren’t sure, we’re pretty spoiled in terms of fresh seafood and we thought we’d get blow back from chefs or consumers because the oysters were not straight out of the river.… Read more “Live storage tanks the key to cash flow during crisis – Written by Colin Bridges”

Colin Bridges
Smart Oysters

I commissioned Austmarine to provide my business with an artic merchandiser 8000 refrigerated display cabinet

A year later, the selling features promised in my initial conversations have met with my expectations and in some cases exceeded them. I found the defrost/flushing system is very effective at controlling odours even after some build up of residue within the cabinet. I cannot smell anything coming from the cabinet after a year’s use. Another feature is “no melt”. Ice will always melt, nevertheless it is very low comparatively. The base ice layer has negligible melt, any ‘capping’ ice (on top of product) does melt but only slowly. As a reference, we have a 200kg a day flake ice… Read more “I commissioned Austmarine to provide my business with an artic merchandiser 8000 refrigerated display cabinet”

Patrick Lay
KFL Supermarket, Springvale VIC

Cray fishermen hooked by storage facilIty – Written by Amy Marshall

PORT Fairy fisherman shouldn’t take long to catch on to the concept of their new live fish holding facility which was launched yesterday. Member for Wannon, David Hawker officially opened the facility which three fisherman have been using since mid-November. Port Fairy professional cray fisherman Howard Sharp was one of those fishermen. He said he had definitely gained from using the tanks despite teething problems which saw almost $2000 worth of catch die. “We just overloaded them before the bacteria had built up and (the tank) couldn’t handle it,” Mr Sharp said. “But now when you put the crays in,… Read more “Cray fishermen hooked by storage facilIty – Written by Amy Marshall”

James Purcell
Moyne Shire Council - Port Fairy

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